Monday Morning Meat #9
I read somewhere that women look at a man’s ass first when judging his physical appearance. Much like men who look at woman’s tits. So - my question to you, dear ladies… Is that true? And if not, what part of male body do you check out first? And we are talking about pure physical attraction, nothing more…
Just to stay in context… Say hello to Tucker and his ass 
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January 15th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Face, but I’m not sure that counts since that’s usually our first contact with a person and we all notice that first.
Otherwise I pay a whole lot of attention to body height and flat stomach. Since the latter cannot be seen so easily I guess it’s the first option that drags my attention the most. Well, nice ass is nice as well. 
January 15th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I used to “do” eyes first… Green eyes used to make me feel all funny.
Then I had a phase when hands were important (don’t know why).
Nowadays, I like long, slim legs and I don’t mind a good ass attached to it
Other parts of the body seem to play no role… But since I’m 1,75 m, attraction for me starts at something like 1,80 m male height.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:52 am
So, we’ve got two entries for body height thusfar. If the trend continues, the books will have to be rewritten
January 15th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Why, did you have any other size in mind?
January 15th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I would go with hands. And height since I’m quite tall.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:43 am
@alcessa Actually, I didn’t (which is quite suprising, I know :))… I was just wondering… Apparently I will have to look for other reasons for me being still single. I thought it was my flabby butt. Hieght is not one of my problems, so… Ah well
*exits rather cheerfully*
January 15th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Look, Pengovsky, as far as I am concerned you’ve attracted quite a (female) fan club so far, mostly by means of posts and photos (no?)… One day, SHE will turn up, sweep us all away and you 2 will ride into the sunset, butt or no butt…
(I’m feeling very generous today, where will it end…?)
January 15th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Oh, don’t worry, I’ve no doubt that I will ride off into the sunset with HER on my trusted stallion. I’m just being cynical
Besides: my butt is fixable, the stomack is still quite flat (although I don’t sport a six-pack), I do have green eyes and about 190 cm in height, so no worries there
I just find the difference of opinions rather amusing. Eyes, abdomen, hands, height, but no butt… Cute
January 15th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
His hands, particularly palms. The way he moves them while talking.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Oh, I forgot. Ugly hands can be a real turn off for me as well.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Well now… We’ve got two entries for height and two entries for hands (and one for eyes and flat abdomen respectively)… Butt is definitelly off the list it seems
January 15th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Correction: make that three entries for hands…
January 15th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Maybe I should also admit that I find skinny men the most attractive, because of their supposed intellectual appeal… Which would definitely be a preference that excludes any importance of butt shape.
January 15th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Do it like Božo Sušec:
“Welcome, ladies (and gentlemen) to the first annual Men’s Body Parts Grand Prix. The race is on and it’s heatnig up already. Hands are in the lead with three points, followed closely by height and flat abdomen, each having two points at the moment. Slightly trailing are the eyes which got just one point so far, whereas butt - the pre-race favourite - is nowhere to be found. Our track-side reporter is still searching for the team manager, who is roumoured to be hiding “where the sun don’t shine” as they say in Texas…”
January 15th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Do tell us if you are also interested in NON-LIKEABLES
January 15th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Oh, but of course… I imagine the list to be long and distinguished
January 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I’ll start with: the monobrow
And continue with: the moustache
January 15th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
So Fredi Miller is a big no-no
January 15th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Turnoffs: ugly hands (nail biting is grows), bad breath, body anywhere close to to the one of mr. Madžarovič, smoking, visibly missing/rotten teeth.
Concerning body type slim works for me.
Not skinny, but definitely not the bodybuilder type. Long, lean sporty muscles are the best. 
January 15th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Jewellery and piercings.
Well, apart from small earrings and bracelets.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
O-kay.. now we’re getting somewhere…
January 15th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
A largish tattoo of his mother.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
One more addition to my negative list: a lot of body hair.
P.S. In which post will we get to scrutinize positive and negative psychical characteristics?
January 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Woha! One thing at the time, dear… Besides, I’m sure you’re thinking of personal characteristics, as we are already dealing in physical ones?
January 15th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
How did you guess that?
I know we only get one thing at the time. That’s why I’m asking if and when are you planning this task for us. 
January 15th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
I might face you with this task this weekend, as I imagine it would take quite a while to complete
:)
January 15th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Hehehe, I will let myself go then.
Until then, I will keep adding my flashes of wit (if I’ll have some more).
January 15th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Hm, do I then get the chance to say good things about male personal chracteristics?
January 15th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I mentioned scrutinizing both. So let’s hope we get the chance to discuss positive AND negative ones.
January 15th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Oh, you did indeed. My quick reading skills are not anymore what they have never been
And, that’s even better
January 15th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
@Sunshine: “Until then, I will keep adding my flashes of wit… As long as they’re not hot flashes… You’re much to young to have those
I will - as always defend my species by encouraging you to find positive things about male personae
January 15th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Hmmmm… teeth, hands, legs (nothing worse than a man with toothpick legs) and yes, I’m sorry to say, buns of steel really do it for me.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Why sorry, a lot of men are grateful, becasue they were about to shoot themselves for working on the wrong muscles for the past decade…
January 15th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Dick. Length, girth, hardness.
Well, not really, and anyway, most guys don’t walk around in public exposing their erections. So what do I check out first? Not a single item or physical trait. It’s the whole package; most of all, the aura or vibes a person projects, much of which is expressed facially (especially eyes)- but not via fixed and genetically determined characteristics, but rather facial expressions–smile, eye contact,etc.–which convey kindness, wisdom, life experience, compassion and so on. Body language is also important.
Then, once I get him naked, I may appreciatively scrutinize various body parts below the face–arms, legs, chest, belly, butt, crotch, thighs–the usual.
Oh, and yes, goes without saying, any mouth with a cigarette hanging from it immediately disqualifies the person from further consideration.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
OK, OK… I get the hint
January 15th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
P.S. Haven’t mentioned it before. That’s a great picture you choose for today.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
To be brutally honest, I don’t thik fags have a lot to do with my being single. A lot of my ex-GFs smoke (most of them, I think). While I understand that a cigarette in a man’s mouth can be a turn-off, I feel the same way about piercings (when judging strictly physical appearance)
January 15th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
And as you so eloquentlly put it - why are you, who don’t smoke, still single, then?
January 15th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Huh, now I will seriously reconsider having my belly button pierced again after the summer.
I was just teasing you, because you stressed so obviously that you GET the hint. 
Considering that a rough quarter of adult population smokes that shouldn’t be the main obstacle.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I know…
So now… do you have a piercing in your belly button or not?
January 15th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Common, Sunshine, this IS you CUE
January 15th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
@alcessa: you know… Good things come to those who wait
January 15th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Yes, I know.
(But don’t you agree: this was the opportunity for saying: Well, Mr. P. come and have a look yourself!
OK OK, I’m sorry. I should be ashamed of myself.)
January 15th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Economists would argue that life is just a series of missed opportunities. Luckily I’m not an economist
January 15th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Mhm, if there is anyone here who doesn’t really know much about flirting and similar stuff, then it is me…
So I SHOULD be keeping quiet but it is quite difficult to do so
January 15th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Well, we’re both Sagittariuses, we don’t flirt… Not a lot, anyhow
But why keep quiet?
January 15th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
So you don’t flirt very much either?
I used to neglect my glasses and since I’m shortsighted I used to have this funny look in my eyes the Germans call “Silberblick” (basically consisting of larger pupils) or also, appropriatelly “Schlafzimmerblick”, but I think there weren’t many men in my time who thought I was trying to tell them something when looking at them. They probably thought “Oh, she must be shortsighted”
My roommate was telling me once it should be easier for me since I’m a smoker (you know, the old “Do you have a lighter” stuff) - we sat in a pub in Ljubljana, consuming large quantities of beer and soon after she had finished telling me what a lucky bastard I was, this guy appeared (there were 2 of them at a table nearby and I think we may have had cast a look or two at one another) and asked me if I had a lighter. I said yes and while handing him the lighter I continued talking to my friend without looking at him!
January 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Well, I’m a bit more flirty than that
but I don’t flirt just for flirting’s sake. Or flirt indefinitelly for that matter. If I sense that a woman is just teasing me, I lose interest rapidly. Or if I find out that she wouldn’t play ball and doesn’t want to throw caution to the wind. No use playing with the matches if you fear getting burned.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Hm, the next category that thus comes to mind is “showing interest”. I think even I can do that
What I mean is having found out reasons for liking someone and then showing it. I did get burned a few times but then, ivory towers do survive centuries, but they do it alone 
But really the worst case of having got hit on the head was while dancing with a guy who was telling me something really interesting. I must have gotten really enthusiastic about his story and things it possibly implied about the kind of life he was leading or something, because after a few minutes he said carefully “Erm, I am… I am gay” and I thought WTF!?
January 15th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
No, at the moment I don’t. But I’m planing to reinstall it.
And I guess I’m the exact opposite of you two. People tell me I flirt all the time. Because my natural behavior is regularly perceived as flirting.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
@alcessa: Yeah I know… We behave like an elephant in a porcelain store…
@Sunshine: Don’t put it back in. I’ll stop smoking and then we can have us a date
Re: flirting… Perhaps you mix with the “wrong” crowd… As alcessa showed, we Sags are liable not to see flirting going on even if the opposite number would write his/her phone number on a pack of condoms…
January 15th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
We can have a date and you won’t know if I have a piercing. But I will know you smoke.
Hmmm… flirting. I didn’t see it as flirting either. It was just funny and friendly and extroverted to me. But dozens of people told me I’m flirting. And people responded like I’m flirting with them. So I guess I am flirting.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Well, you will have me at a disadvantage then, my fair lady… But I always enjoyed playing against the odds
More fun in it…
January 16th, 2007 at 12:14 am
It seems you like challenges.
It’s good if you see it as a fun thing. No place for boredom in your life then. 
I love challenges. They keep me going…
January 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Challenges keep my juices flowing. I already admitted here to being an adrenaline junkie… So… Consider yourself challenged…
January 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Wow, no one seems to mind my matchmaking intrusions here
Pengovsky, if you need some help with quitting the cigarettes, let me know
January 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Challenge… When, where and what? Just make sure I’ll survive.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Can you help my mother too?
We’re fighting for over a decade now. And she SWORE to me she’ll stop when she was watching her father die of lung cancer. Grrrr
And no… no one minds.
It was cute.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:27 am
I knew you can respond to cues, I just knew it!
(I’m afraid I stopped smoking because I grew to hate it and didn’t feel well physically at all. It has nothing to do with willpower. So as long as your mother feels she can live with it…)
January 16th, 2007 at 12:30 am
I can respond to cues.
I was watching tv. I’m not that slow with cues usually. Just to clear things out. 
January 16th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Well, the gentleman that I am I’ll take the details of the challenge outside this blog… I think it’s the only appropriate thing to do….
January 16th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Well, Miss Sunshine, I was just teasing you. Or, maybe this is also flirting, who knows
Goodnight and good luck!
January 16th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Goodnight it is. I’m off to bed for today.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Good night to both of you… It’s been fun… Again
January 16th, 2007 at 1:49 am
So, just one butt and a date. Not bad!
January 20th, 2007 at 10:45 am
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